Top Four Natural Ingredients For Chemical-Free Skin Rejuvenation

The Power of Natural Ingredients To Rejuvenate Skin
Parabens, phosphates, and many other chemicals in many skin care products can severely disrupt your body's natural processes. However, by complementing your skin's natural processes with natural ingredients that further strengthens its durability and protective agents you can achieve a youthful, healthy complexion.
Here’s more natural ingredients you should look for in treating your skin.

Vitamin C: Protects and Promotes the Skin's Natural Processes

• Prevention of Environmental Aging – Wrinkles, pigmentation, and other common aging effects don't have to be inevitable due to exposure from the sun, wind, and other pollution.
• Enhanced UVA/UVB Protection – Vitamin C allows your skin to protect itself up to 8 times more effectively than it can naturally from the sun's harmful rays (please note: Our serum is not a replacement for sunscreen)
• Increased Strength and Durability – Vitamin C is necessary for the production of collagen, which helps maintain skin elasticity. Collagen is responsible for giving skin strength and durability. It gives it a smooth, plump appearance which is vital for looking young and healthy.
• Rapid Improvement – Just 2-3 days can create a visible difference in tone, texture, and evenness of your skin, giving you rapid results that will only continue to improve.

With decades of research around its benefits, vitamin C is a long-established skincare superstar that can help you achieve younger, healthier and more radiant skin. However, like any ingredient, skincare will never be as simple as any single ingredient—just as no single food or nutrient can keep your body healthy, you need more than just one ingredient to keep your skin in good shape, too!
It's important to mention that vitamin C forms are effective in lower concentrations, so don't get caught up in the belief that only higher strengths are beneficial for skin. Research has shown that concentrations as low 0.6% provide antioxidant and anti-aging benefits to skin (Skin Research and Technology, 2008). Depending on your concerns, you may do just fine using a regular-strength vitamin C product, especially is said product also contains a range of great ingredients to smooth, repair, and replenish skin.
Without question, vitamin C is a powerful tool in your anti-aging arsenal. For best results, use it strategically and as part of a routine that includes a daily broad-spectrum sunscreen plus irritant-free products that contain a skin-pleasing mix of antioxidants, skin-repairing agents, and cell-communicating ingredients.

Sea Buckthorn Oil: Potent Healing Antioxidant
Although Sea Buckthorn Oil is most widely researched for its use in the medical realm, it is quickly making its way into the cosmetic and skincare world as well.
Select benefits include:

• Reduction in Flaws – Erase fine lines, sun spots, and imperfections in skin tone.
• Healing Power – Old acne scars and serious skin imperfections can be addressed through the use of this special oil.
• Rare Omega Fatty Acids Confer Unprecedented Benefits – Omega-6 and Omega-7 acids are both present within the oil, promoting the healing of scars while also retaining moisture and keeping your skin smooth and fresh.
  • Sitosterol in Sea Buckthorn Oil improves microcirculation, giving skin a healthy glow
  • Reduces sun spots

Sea Buckthorn is the perfect natural cocktail to treat all signs of aging, not just the physical. Even a famous TV doctor recommended sea buckthorn as a miracle acne remedy back in 2010.
Sea Buckthorn has been thoroughly researched in over 130 modern scientific studies that have found that this berry promotes health. Sea Buckthorn contains more than 190 biologically active compounds that can nourish the body's cells to protect the skin from free radicals and the natural aging process.
Bio-active substances in the oil from the seed and pulp are used in a variety of dermatological applications, among them anti-aging face creams and lotions and (since the extract seems to absorb UV rays) in sun care products. Add the plant's oil to sunscreen products as both a sun-block and tan-enhancer. European cosmeticians sell anti-wrinkle creams made from Sea Buckthorn. (Please note, because of Sea Buckthorn's high level of beta-carotene, the oil is deep reddish orange and unless used in extremely weak dilutions can color your skin. If you want "bronzing oil" this is your choice!) The stain does, however, go away in a short time depending on how much is put on.
As mentioned before, Sea Buckthorn contains anti-oxidants like vitamin E and beta-carotene which effectively combats wrinkles, dryness, and other symptoms of aging or of a neglected skin. Research indicates that products containing Sea Buckthorn Berry appear to promote cell tissue regeneration, thus aiding in the healing of wounds, and restoring skin tissue. That is why Sea-Buckthorn oil delays the aging process internally and externally. Sea Buckthorn oil is said to have proven effective in the treatment of skin conditions including burns, skin ulcers, cancer, acne and dermatitis of various forms. Sea Buckthorn is a plant that gives adequate results in a very short time.

Rosehip Seed Oil: Renowned for Anti-Aging and Skin Rejuvenation
When you're looking to achieve a youthful, radiant glow, you need products with Rosehip Seed Oil, one of the best plant seed oils known for skin care purposes. Benefits are possible for all skin types and include:

• Counters the Appearance of Deeply Damaged Skin – If you suffer from acne scarring, deep wrinkles, severe environmental damage, or other skin conditions, Rosehip Seed Oil can help.
• Cell Regeneration – Skin will look brighter and fresher because Rosehip Seed Oil contains Vitamin A necessary for this process to occur.
• Firmer Skin Without Dryness – Achieve firmer skin without the typical dryness due to the prominence of Vitamin E, as well as Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids.

Mally Steves Chakola, the founder of M. Steves Skincare, first realized the healing power of rose hip seed oil after applying it to an 18-year-old scar for two weeks — it faded significantly. So she developed her brand around the ingredient, which contains essential fatty acids, an antioxidant (vitamin C), and a natural retinol (vitamin A). It’s ideal for protecting your skin as well as increasing cell turnover. She recommends using it as a boost for your moisturizer — just mix in a few drops before you apply. If you’re skeptical about putting oil directly onto your face, this is a great option.



Hyaluronic Acid: Protects and Helps Retain Moisture
As we age, our skin loses moisture. Lock it in and retain your moisture for good through the use of Hyaluronic Acid. Other benefits include:

• Retain More Water – Hyaluronic Acid is best known for its ability to help your skin hold more than 1,000 times its weight in water. Because moisture is key for a youthful complexion, this will give you the appearance that you want.
• Protects Skin With Breathable Barrier – With so many environmental agents at the root cause of aging, you can take comfort in knowing that you will have a breathable barrier with Hyaluronic Acid.
• Cassia Angustfolia Seed Polysaccharide – As a specific form of Hyaluronic Acid, this substance does it all including tissue repair, promoting elasticity, and acting as an anti-inflammatory.

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a gel-like water holding molecule that is the space filler and cushioning agent in all mammals. HA cushions joints, nerves, hydrates skin and hair, and fills the eye. Although originally discovered in 1934 by Karl Meyer, HA gained momentum only after a visit by a reporter to a Japanese village of Yuzuri Hara to find out why both men and women in their 80's and 90's had smooth wrinkle free skin, flexible joints, full heads of hair and activity levels that defied their age. This was eventually found to be related to oestrogen-like molecules in their diet from soya and tofu, which sent signals to the cells to make more hyaluronic acid.
Our bodies roughly contain 15 grams of HA and it is found in virtually every part of the body. With such a widespread occurrence, it is logical that HA also has multiple functions. Scientific studies have shown that HA improves skin hydration, stimulates production of collagen in skin, works as an antioxidant and free radical scavenger, maintains skin elasticity, cushions joints and nerve tissues, has an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activity and maintains the fluid in the eye tissues, which may help to protect against numerous possible eye concerns.
The average human body contains roughly 15 grams of HA, one third of which is degraded and synthesized on a daily basis. This is where the problems arise! The manufacture of every single protective agent in the body declines with age and HA is no exception to this rule. Decreasing levels of hyaluronic acid are known to accompany the ageing process and it is estimated that by the time we reach our mid-40's, the synthesis of HA is roughly half that required by the body.